The little couple bowed and apologized, took responsibility, and patted on the back, but Liang Huairen didn't know what to say for a while, and he muttered for a long time before saying: "In the afternoon, I thought about it, you two are good brothers and sisters-in-law who love your brothers."

Shen Luzhu looked at Chu Yi when he heard this, raised his eyebrows lightly, and then said excitedly, "So, Mr. Liang agreed to accept Ah Li as an apprentice?"

Liang Huairen twitched the corners of his mouth, glanced at Shen Luzhu, and asked, "When you asked me for the second time if I won, what should you do if I admit defeat?"

"If Mr. Liang admits defeat, then he is naturally willing to gamble and accept defeat and agree to my request."

Yes, it turned out that he was waiting for him here, and he agreed to her a request, and he didn't need to ask Liang Huairen to know what she would ask for, and he accepted the gift as a vain.

"Even if I admit defeat, you're embarrassed to agree?"

Shen Luzhu smiled and grabbed Chu Yi's arm and said, "What's so embarrassing, in the eyes of my father-in-law, my paintings are the best in the world, oh?"

Chu Yi smiled dotingly: "That's right."

Liang Huairen rolled his eyes, turned around and walked towards the outside of the hall, and the little couple hurriedly raised their steps to chase after him: "Mr. Liang, Mr. Liang, Liang Huairen!"

Liang Huairen stopped and replied sideways: "What are you shouting, I, Liang Huairen, am so easy to fool, the apprenticeship ceremony, the apprenticeship banquet is indispensable, I can't be cheap You two, I'll go back to the inn where I stay, and come to the door in three days."

The little couple looked at each other, so excited that Chu Yi was big, and chased after him in a few steps, bowed and thanked, "I'll send Mr. back."

Liang Huairen said awkwardly, "Afraid that I will run?"

"Don't dare."

Shen Luzhu happily watched Chu Yi and Liang Huairen go out, and then hurriedly ran to find the Chu family and inform them of the good news.

But Chu Li looked at it, except for the moment when he first heard the news, he didn't show great joy, Shen Luzhu saw it in his eyes, and waited for the family to disperse before he asked, "Ah Li doesn't seem to be very happy, don't you want to worship Mr. Liang as a teacher?" Don't like his paintings?"

Chu Li shook his head: "Without sister-in-law, Mr. Liang painted very well."

"What's going on with that?"

Chu Yi sat on the steps in front of the hall and looked up at Shen Luzhu: "Sister-in-law, am I causing you trouble, I can learn from my sister-in-law, it's already very good, don't ask for someone for me."

He is not the child who didn't understand anything before, his brother and sister-in-law took him away, what he would say, what he would do was easy to guess, it was nothing more than for him to beg Liang Huairen, but this was exactly what he didn't want.

Shen Luzhu lifted the hem of his skirt, sat down beside Chu Li, rubbed his head and said, "Ah Li, what have you been thinking about all day long in your little head, have you seen me and your brother begging for help?"

Chu Li blinked and didn't speak, even if he didn't see it, he knew that Liang Huairen didn't want to take him as an apprentice, but after chatting with his brother and sister-in-law alone, he nodded and agreed, such a big change, how could it be possible to say that he didn't ask for someone.

"We're not begging for help, we're just trying to give Mr. Liang a step down."

Chu Li turned his head to look at his sister-in-law, with an expression of don't take me for a fool.

"When did my sister-in-law lie to you, do you think, Mr. Liang just glanced at your painting on the side of the road, just because he was afraid of delaying your talent as a stranger, so he waited at our house for an afternoon, and he had to fight with me, why is this?"

Chu Li shook his head: "Maybe he's too kind."

"Kindness is true, but it's more that he likes Ah Li's paintings and values your talent, maybe he wanted to take us Ah Li as an apprentice at that time, so he was angry because he misunderstood that I taught you to paint, so that you could work and paint on the coffin.

Sister-in-law didn't know that he was a very powerful painter at the time, so naturally she wanted to talk back, you and I said one sentence at a time, the atmosphere was frozen there, and he naturally couldn't pull his face and said that he agreed to accept you as an apprentice, so Sister-in-law and your brother have to give him a step down."

"But...... He dislikes our coffin, my sister-in-law is obviously very good at drawing, and everyone likes it very much, what is the difference between painting on paper and painting on coffin

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Shen Luzhu smiled very happily: "What Ali said is not wrong at all, there is no high or low in the matter of painting, as long as you like it and do not interfere with others, then what difference does it make on paper or on the coffin."

"Then why does my sister-in-law want me to worship him as a teacher?"

"There's a saying, take the essence and get rid of the dross, have you heard of it?"

Chu Li shook his head: "No."

"We learn Mr. Liang's painting skills from our apprentice, and we can also learn from his love for painting, as well as his enthusiasm.

Three days later, the Chu family had already prepared the process of apprenticeship, invited familiar neighbors to come to testify, and waited for the time to come, Liang Huairen came to the door.

The apprenticeship ceremony was set to start at three o'clock, just after the arrival of the time, in front of the open courtyard gate of the Chu family, there was a man wearing a dark robe, Xue Changshan, who was guarding the door, looked at this person with a little face, and thought it was a customer who went wrong, and hurriedly stepped forward to ask: "If you buy something, you can go to the shops on both sides, what do you want to buy, paper money or paper tie?"

Liang Huairen frowned and said, "What kind of paper money to buy, I'm here to participate in the apprenticeship, you kid has only been a few days, and you don't know anyone?"

When Xue Changshan heard this, he carefully looked at the man in front of him, the people invited by the master and his wife to participate in the apprenticeship banquet were all familiar neighbors, and there was no one he didn't recognize, but the man in front of him, this dress seemed to have been seen indeed: "You...... You can't be Mr. Liang!"

It's no wonder that Xue Changshan couldn't recognize it, it was really Liang Huairen's face full of beard that day, and his body was full of dust, and he was in his fifties anyway, otherwise Chu Li and a few people couldn't keep calling him old man.

But now Liang Huairen rested in the inn for a few days, changed into clean clothes, shaved his beard again, and showed his original face, and now he looks at most in his thirties.

Not only Xue Changshan, but the Chu family was taken aback by Liang Huairen's new face, and they dared to recognize each other after confirming it again and again, Shen Luzhu kept slandering, no wonder everyone called him Mr. Lao that day, he would be so manic, looking at the same age as Uncle Chu, he really didn't use the old words.

Liang Huairen was originally a person from the capital, he was quite talented in painting when he was a child, he became famous in Beijing at a young age, and in recent years he was bored in the capital, so he packed his bags and wandered around in the territory of Daqian, visiting the famous rivers and rivers to send his affection to the landscape, and if he was interested in going somewhere, he lived for a while, experienced the local customs, and also recorded what he saw and heard with a brush by the way.

At noon on the day he met Chu Li, Liang Huairen came to Xing'an County, found an inn to settle down on the main street in the city, ate something at will, and went out for a stroll, not caring about the beard that had not been cleaned up for more than half a month, and the gray clothes, which made everyone misunderstand, thinking that it was an old man in his fifties.

At three o'clock, the Chu family and everyone who were invited to watch the ceremony stood on both sides of the Chu family hall, and Chu Yi invited Liang Huairen from the west chamber to the main seat of the hall.

With the shouts of the invited principal, Chu Li, dressed in new clothes, came to the middle of the hall, walked to the place three steps in front of Liang Huairen, solemnly knelt on the futon arranged, and bowed three times and bowed nine times.

After Chu Li straightened up, Chu Xiuxiu brought up the prepared Jingshi tea, red envelopes and six ritual bundles composed of celery, lotus seeds, red beans, red dates, longan and dried lean pork strips.

Liang Huairen drank all the tea in the cup, and then said: "You and I can form this friendship between master and apprentice today, it is really fate, painting is a process of self-cultivation and tempering will, although you are talented, you will need to be diligent and self-denying in the future, and practice more."

Chu Li kowtowed again and said, "Disciples, follow Master's teachings."

In the presence of everyone, he bowed to the teacher, drank the tea of the teacher, and after eating the apprenticeship banquet, Chu Li officially became Liang Huairen's apprentice.

After worshipping the teacher, it is natural to study beside the master every day, and the Chu family discussed again and again, and after soliciting Chu Li's ideas, Chu Yi dropped out of school for Chu Li in the private school.

Since I confirmed that I want to learn painting from a teacher, Chu Li

has made a decision, he has thought about this matter very clearly, he has no intention of participating in the imperial examination and gaining fame, and it is just a waste of time to continue reading, since he has found what he likes to do, dropping out of school is the best choice now.

The inn where Liang Huairen stayed was on Changqing Street, less than a quarter of an hour's walk from Chu's shop, and when Chu Yi sent him back that day, he helped him change to a larger suite, which was also convenient for Chu Li to learn painting here every day in the future.

Chu Li dropped out of private school, but the days are no different from the past, they still set off early in the morning every day, and then come home in the afternoon to help take care of Zhengzheng, or do some small work within their ability, Chu Xiuxiu and Shen Luzhu have one more job, that is, to deliver food to Chu Li and Liang Huairen at the inn at noon every day.

Sometimes it was Shen Luzhu who made it himself, sometimes the family was too busy, so he put on the food box and ordered a few dishes to be sent to a nearby restaurant, and the inn also provided meals, but it was not as delicious as his own cooking, so Shen Luzhu changed his tricks every day and made more, and he was honored by the master for Chu Li.

Seeing that in late April, several persimmon trees in the inner courtyard of the Chu family had grown tender leaves, and on this day, Aunt Sun next door took her own tricks and held a lot of fabrics into the coffin shop of the Chu family next door.

Gao Tongshan saw that it was the shop next door, so he took a lot of fabrics, so he knew that he was looking for his own proprietress, so he hurriedly beckoned Song He to help take care of the shop, and took people to the inner courtyard himself.